California’s depleted, drying Salton Sea to get $250 million in federal drought funding. Birds take flight on the Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge.

A 4.3-magnitude earthquake jolted a lake shoreline Friday, July 11, in Southern California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. Then dozens of smaller quakes followed. The 6.5-mile-deep quake hit ...

Southern California's Salton Sea may be sitting atop a lithium gold mine that, if extracted, could power a staggering 375 million electric vehicle batteries, according to a new report.

Bruce Wilcox, the state official in charge of Salton Sea restoration, said California won't meet its first target in the 10-year plan, which is to build 500 acres of restoration projects in 2018.

At 35 miles long and 15 miles wide, the Salton Sea is California’s largest lake. Its most recent incarnation formed in 1905, when the Colorado River breached an irrigation canal and millions of ...

California’s top water regulators adopted an agreement that commits the state to following through on plans of building wetlands and controlling dust around the shrinking Salton Sea over the ...

Southern California's Salton Sea may be sitting atop a lithium gold mine that, if extracted, could power a staggering 375 million electric vehicle batteries, according to a new report.

California turns on water to create new wetlands on the shore of the shrinking Salton Sea May 27, 2025 New desalination technology being tested in California could lower costs of tapping seawater ...

“The Salton Sea is one of the most pressing environmental health crises in the state of California,” said state Sen. Steve Padilla, the Chula Vista Democrat who authored the bill to create the ...